Joseph Murphy said in one of his books - "There is only one love – pure, perfect, accepting, generous and inexhaustible. Never changes, neither hesitates nor deminishes".
Never changes, neither hesitates nor deminishes...
This idea taken from Poul's Letter to the Corinthians is one of the most joyous visions of love I know. Joy comes from the hope, that we are loved for ever. We are always safe being covered in this love. No one can take it away or give it us, because it is always given and given for ever.
It also carries the rule, rule of love, as the main principle of existence. We exist because of love and we exist to love. Love each other? Love God? Love to love?
Might we escape from love? If yes, it could mean, we might stop exist at all.
We usually want to live for ever. Especially, because the existence we generally know is temporary. We would like to keep what we like and leave what we don’t, and be for ever young and happy. We think it’s possible in various kinds of heaven after the death of the body (or mind) and we are hoping for it, working for it, waiting for it. Some don’t believe it, some don’t want to wait for any tomorrow, some don’t think about this and use many ways to live here and now for some happiness, or for killing the time to death. And what if we have to live for ever?
What if we can’t turn the life off? Is love a prison? Are we a prisoners of eternity? Is it the reason to dance?
Danse macabre…
If our choice applies to the only question - how to live for ever in a best way? For example - if we are interested in God - what kind of God we would like to worship? For ever. We are choosing from the full of possibility and taking the part of it as full. So, if we can't do this something, what we would like to do or die, the best choice should be that pure, perfect, accepting, generous and inexhaustible love, what never changes, neither hesitates nor deminishes...